Microsoft Official Course

20467B
Designing Business Intelligence
Solutions with Microsoft SQL Server
2012
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About This Course

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• Organized by Modules
• Includes Labs + Lab Answer Keys
• Module Reviews + Takeaways—
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Course Outline

• Module 1: Planning a BI Solution

• Module 2: Planning SQL Server Business Intelligence
Infrastructure
• Module 3: Designing a Data Warehouse
• Module 4: Designing an ETL Solution
• Module 5: Designing Analytical Data Models
• Module 6: Planning a BI Delivery Solution
• Module 7: Designing a Reporting Services Solution
• Module 8: Designing a Microsoft Excel-Based Reporting
Solution

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Course Outline (continued)

• Module 9: Planning a SharePoint Server BI Solution

• Module 10: Monitoring and Optimizing a BI Solution
• Module 11: Operating a BI Solution

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Related Courses

• 10777: Implementing a Data Warehouse with Microsoft

SQL Server 2012
• 10778: Implementing Data Models and Reports with
Microsoft SQL Server 2012

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Preparing for the Labs

Your lab activities will be centered around Adventure Works

Cycles, a fictitious manufacturer and seller of cycles and related
products.

In the labs in this course, you will examine business requirements

for a BI project, and design the different elements of the solution.

To complete the labs, you will work in a virtual

machine (VM) environment.

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Virtual Machine Environment

Virtual Machine Name: Use as:

20467B-MIA-SQLBI BI Server

20467B-MIA-DC Domain Controller

Demonstration: Using Hyper-V Manager
In this demonstration, you will learn how to:
• Open Hyper-V Manager
• Navigate the various sections/panes within Hyper-V Manager
• Virtual Machines, Snapshots, and Actions: Server-specific and VM-
specific
• Identify the VMs used in the labs for this course
• Take a Snapshot and Apply a Snapshot
• Connect to a VM
• Start and log on to a VM
• Switch between full screen and window modes
• Revert to the previous Snapshot
• Shut down a VM
• When to use Shut Down or Turn off
• Close Hyper-V Manager

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